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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Any Kindle not getting 5.12.5 is EOLed.
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By your definition, which appears not to include things like "can use it for its intended purpose with all newly-sold content". People who don't hang out on forums like this don't even *know* when their firmware updates (citation: my own mother, who only notices the occasional UI change and had no idea until I mentioned it that the software on the Kindle was being changed at all). They would certainly know if they were unable to buy newly-published books. *That* is what constitutes EOL for a Kindle from Amazon's perspective, *and* from the perspective of every single user who isn't a software developer and probably most of those as well. Your definition is also not the legal definition, which is jurisdiction-dependent but is very unlikely to exceed the duration of a three-year extended warranty -- yet Amazon often keep providing firmware for Kindles older than that.
The only team which is in any way likely to use your bizarrely-specific definition of EOL is the team at lab126 actually developing the firmware. You'll pardon me if I find that definition less useful than one that actually reflects the user experience. It is certainly not an uncontested definition worthy of constantly harping on about like this, redirecting conversations in much less useful directions than they would otherwise be, into pedantic arguments over your *personal* definition of "EOL".
(Also... when you buy a Kindle, is the top-of-line item "continued firmware updates" or is it about, well, *buying and reading books*? Oh look it's about buying books. Imagine that! You might almost think it was a reader and not a general-purpose computing platform.)